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Game's only been out a couple days and all my feeds are just filled with the protagonist lady with huge thighs, tits and ass. I haven't even played the original or actively looked up the game in any capacity.

McmadnessV3 posted...

Game's only been out a couple days and all my feeds are just filled with the protagonist lady with huge thighs, tits and ass. I haven't even played the original or actively looked up the game in any capacity.

Lmao

McmadnessV3 posted...

Game's only been out a couple days and all my feeds are just filled with the protagonist lady with huge thighs, tits and ass. I haven't even played the original or actively looked up the game in any capacity.

I saw someone who was like "I never played HK or Silksong but wanted to draw Hornet" and they put her arms outside of her dress and it really bothered me and took all of my self control not to say something about it.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I saw someone who was like "I never played HK or Silksong but wanted to draw Hornet" and they put her arms outside of her dress and it really bothered me and took all of my self control not to say something about it.

Seems like everyone conveniently wants to draw someone when their game is the current popular thing.

Presuming its like Hollow Knight, I got an ending. Can definitely think of a few things I havent done, and wouldnt be surprised if theres a lot more. I didnt get a % completion indicator.

Captain_Qwark posted...

Pretty early on. I've been capped on the silver shard money for ages but keep dying and losing my rosary beads.

That red ant location is brutal

Also - any analog stick players having difficulty getting the dive attack to go the right direction?

Common experiences here, friend. You'll probably be capped on shards most of the time, they're pretty much only used to replace tool ammo when you rest at a bench.

Hunter's March is notably bullshit. Come back later with more abilities and you should have a better time. No one knows why Team Cherry made it the 3rd accessible area when they expect you to have abilities from like area 7 or 8 to complete it. You literally cannot make meaningful progress in it with some movement upgrades.

Down Attack is kind of splitting the fan base with some people being fine with it and a lot of people struggling to get used to it. Fortunately there will be a couple of options to make it easier for platforming later. For one thing, you can eventually swap out the diagonal dive for a straight down pogo style attack. For another, the Hover ability makes it much easier to line up your diagonal dives.

I was so glad to ditch the default moveset and get a normal pogo.

-Crissaegrim- posted...

Speaking of Greymoor, I have settled myself on a decent little grinding spot for Rosary Beads/Strings.

The lower trail between the Halfway Home resting bench and the Rosary String vending machine has some enemies that'll get you enough beads to convert every two or so runs. I run between the Halfway Home rest and the Resting spot east of the String vending machine to reset the enemies, and with the Dash power up you can run through that stretch of the map fairly quickly.

Quite safe too. Enemies there aren't super challenging, and if you do somehow mess up and die, your respawn is close by.

https://youtu.be/NzxkaRI-Nzk?feature=shared

Video showing the grind route with some spoilerish mid-game abilities/equipment.

Got my first mask upgrade and honestly it feels like a huge QOL buff. I know its probably not gonna help with bosses at all but for just exploring it changes up the cost/opportunity for healing a lot. Before if I was in a tricky situation where I might take a lot of damage pretty quickly it was either heal when down 2 masks for safety OR risk going down to just 2 masks left and possibly not finding a clean chance to heal without dying in order to not "waste" Silk. Now the choice is pretty straightforward: Wait to heal until down at least 3 masks and have a decent timing to do so. It actually feels great. You've got a really good buffer window between being able to heal efficiently and being in danger of dying (esp with the Fractured Mask crest essentially giving 1 extra hit).

The bird gauntlet isnt as bad as beastfly. Beastfly is just rng motherfucker. Birds in greymoor is annoying but i still think ultimately fair.

With beastfly you can literally get "checkmated" especially you're unlucky and the boss summons minions 3 times in a row.

Anyone return to the Hunter's March vendor after buying all his stuff?

Guess the other ants weren't fond of him selling stuff to an outsider.

I genuinely feel bad for everyone that missed the needle upgrade

fire_bolt posted...

Hunter's March is notably bullshit. Come back later with more abilities and you should have a better time. No one knows why Team Cherry made it the 3rd accessible area

It is? I still haven't been there and I have 6 areas on my map.

new worst run back discovered.

yall please tell me i missed a bench somewhere.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1706437b.jpg

Tyranthraxus posted...

new worst run back discovered.

yall please tell me i missed a bench somewhere.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1706437b.jpg

I don't think you did. There's the waypoint and that was all I found in there myself. It wasn't until I got to a new area that I was able to confirm that benches remove maggots.

Nota214 posted...

I don't think you did. There's the waypoint and that was all I found in there myself. It wasn't until I got to a new area that I was able to confirm that benches remove maggots.

Ther should be an elevator somewhere i think. One is at the bench

A5modeu5 posted...

Ther should be an elevator somewhere i think. One is at the bench

There's no elevator anywhere and even if there was that doesn't help that 80% of the run is horizontal.

I found a bench.

Had to get dirty.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8912f006.png

Tyranthraxus posted...

There's no elevator anywhere and even if there was that doesn't help that 80% of the run is horizontal.

K. But those vacuum elevators dont necessarily just go vertical.

A5modeu5 posted...

K. But those vacuum elevators dont necessarily just go vertical.

The vacuum elevators are only in the citadel

God I went through Sinner's Road and Bilewater fighting for my life just to end up in the Slab. Actually, I like it better here than those two hellholes

Just got the Needolin skill and am cleaning up re-exploring areas and clearing side content before moving to what I assume will be the end of Act 1. Starting to compile a list of places I thought Needolin might be useful (spoilers, it hasn't done FUCK ALL yet)

The Dancer statue in Hunter's March: Nope

The Pilgrim Shrine that talks about music in Shellwood: Also nope

The Bell Hermit: He'll sing along with you. You need a full Silk bar or maybe more to hear his full song. He might be slightly friendlier afterwards, but that could just be because I keep visiting him any time I go thru Bellhart

Also learned something interesting. If you die but a DoT effect kills the enemy before you actually respawn it still counts as a win. Was using the Flintstrike tool with the Poplip Pouch to give my Needle Burn and Poison DoTs both vs The second Ant Barbarian above the Bench in Hunter's March and got creamed. It died less than a second after I did and it still counted as clearing the room for getting to the chamber beyond.

fire_bolt posted...

Starting to compile a list of places I thought Needolin might be useful (spoilers, it hasn't done FUCK ALL yet)

It's this game's dream nail except even more useless.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's this game's dream nail except even more useless.

To be fair, Dream Nail was far from useless. There were a number of places in the game where being able to gain soul without killing enemies was pretty handy.

Anyway, if you're wondering if the Multibinder Charm in Bellhart is worth the steep cost of almost 900 rosaries, it is probably not. Changes your Bind from a single quick healing burst for 3 masks to a two part charge that takes about 1.5x as long as normal and each part heals 2 masks, for a net 1 extra mask. The fact that it takes longer and if you get interupted halfway thru it heals 1 less mask makes me think it might be situationally useful but not great in a busy fight

So I found a pretty nifty "cheese" strategy for the The Final Judge. Literally just Magma Bell. Turns almost all of the boss's damage down to 1 Mask instead of 2 (sometimes 3). Extremely easy when you do that.

And with that I can finally begin my journey into Act 2. Also, got the fleas to move up. Seems they do indeed have some kind of wait this time around. They won't skip a boss this time.

Also I think I may have missed an item somewhere. I see a ton of people get this like red aura around them when they use their heal. I assume this is some kind of charm, and an early one too based on where I've seen it used, but I have no idea what it is. It seems like it might be super armor during heals? Anyone know what this is and where I need to look for it?

Uta posted...

Also I think I may have missed an item somewhere. I see a ton of people get this like red aura around them when they use their heal. I assume this is some kind of charm, and an early one too based on where I've seen it used, but I have no idea what it is. It seems like it might be super armor during heals? Anyone know what this is and where I need to look for it?

Warding Bell. It's useless don't bother. If you get hit while binding it cancels the heal anyway. You just don't take the damage.

Well the Blasted Lands can go fuck themselves. Getting flashbacks to some of the worst levels in Mario Maker 2.

fire_bolt posted...

Well the Blasted Lands can go fuck themselves. Getting flashbacks to some of the worst levels in Mario Maker 2.

The game basically only gets harder from here on out.

Tyranthraxus posted...

The game basically only gets harder from here on out.

No I mean specifically the wind, darkness, or combination of wind and darkness. Just gotta stop moving every 45 seconds because I can't see and high wind means I can only platform if I'm going left >_>;

Also I keep seeing people talking about going to prison. Does that happen before or after the Last Judge fight? Cuz I feel like I've fully explored everything up to that point but never went to jail

fire_bolt posted...

No I mean specifically the wind, darkness, or combination of wind and darkness. Just gotta stop moving every 45 seconds because I can't see and high wind means I can only platform if I'm going left >_>;

Also I keep seeing people talking about going to prison. Does that happen before or after the Last Judge fight? Cuz I feel like I've fully explored everything up to that point but never went to jail

You have to let an enemy capture you otherwise you can't get there until act 2

I figured out how to knock Lace off the stage btw. She has to already be on the edge of the stage in the air and the hit has to make her dizzy.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Warding Bell. It's useless don't bother. If you get hit while binding it cancels the heal anyway. You just don't take the damage.

It's a bit useful in that it does damage in a big AoE if you get hit while trying to heal, but yeah it's basically that shell heal from HK1 but with infinite charges.

TIL that if you get hit during your heal attempt you lose ALL of your Silk, not just the amount you need to heal. Idk if it protects against that, but if it does that'd be pretty nice.

Magma Bell feels even more useless.

Am I wrong in feeling like this game is more linear than HK? I'm only like 5 hours in though

So far I feel like I've successfully scraped most areas and most forks in the road are blocked by some future ability.

Outside of the flea transport I guess

WizardPowers posted...

Am I wrong in feeling like this game is more linear than HK? I'm only like 5 hours in though

So far I feel like I've successfully scraped most areas and most forks in the road are blocked by some future ability.

Outside of the flea transport I guess

Once you get Dash, Float Cloth and Wall Grip, the map is fairly wide open. I'm pushing my exploration as much as I can at different points of the map and I've noticed a couple of little spots here and there that will require another abilitiy, but I'm still getting by pretty freely in whichever way I want to go.

Only obstacle I've ran into that's made me turn back from one or two points is the difficulty spikes of some areas. That damned enemy room in Hunter's March still has my number, lol. I'll get back to it, eventually.

Ok, Last Judge runback is the next bit of cancer I've bumped into since Beast Chapel. I don't mind the Judge fight so far, its literally the walk. Combining Floor Is Double Mask Lava damage with flying, ranged attack enemies who constantly move out of your range is just fucking terrible. The run its self, if done flawlessly, takes maybe 30 seconds but if you slip up one time you might as well just head back to the bench and start over. If you want to get enough Silk to heal its gonna take longer than the walk back to the bench would. This results in it taking 2-3+ minutes to get back to the boss room, mainly because of that one damn fly at the end that doesn't spawn remotely close to open ground. Holy crap this sucks so bad.

EDIT: I will say this. This is the first time I've been glad recovering your cocoon refills your silk as a pre-emptive to a boss rather than as a refill partway into a fight. I'd rather eat glass as fill up my Silk on the way to the Last Judge. Fuck

Just did Chapel of the Beast, man that was hard. Only 5 health and he does 2, though most of the damage I took was from accidentally touching him rather than him hitting me. After I started forcing him to ram into the wall more I won much more easily

Getting the hang of diagonal pogo, still not really sold on it. I've also barely ever used the needle move, I need to get better at remembering that exists

I haven't had much time to play, but I finally got the dash a little while ago and went back to fight a boss guarding a doorway in which I needed dash, and I'm in the ant area. Died a lot in a combat arena where an NPC helped me out and lost all my beads trying to get back there again one time. I don't think I'm supposed to be here yet since enemies have a ton of health and there are jets of air that I can't use. I suppose I should go back to the lava area to find out where I should be going.

Chaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTh5o54u9AM

I just got put in prison now. I saw it mentioned here a couple of times but it still caught me off guard. Running around nekkud felt weird. But it was very satisfying when she murdered that guy with the cloak.

CyricZ posted...

Chaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTh5o54u9AM

He needs to do a pontiff theme remix if he hasn't already.

LOL

The Last Judge's final blast would have killed me if I hadn't had Fractured Mask. Whew lads. The runback was a bitch but that was a good fight

I didn't want to do The Last Judge runback and I saw a comment on reddit that you can bypass it for now by going a different route, so I went that way. Now I am getting my ass kicked by a boss called phantom

Last Judge can't be bypassed you'll have to do it eventually.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Last Judge can't be bypassed you'll have to do it eventually.

yeah but apparently you can still beat act 1 without fighting him, and take an easier route to the boss fight instead

Holy hell I finally beat that high halls enemy encounter. Those 2 big guys are so terrible, 2mask damage and you can't get close often because of all the attack spamming. Definitely the hardest thing in the game for me so far

bevan306 posted...

I didn't want to do The Last Judge runback and I saw a comment on reddit that you can bypass it for now by going a different route, so I went that way. Now I am getting my ass kicked by a boss called phantom

That's been my favorite boss so far.

cadcrafter posted...

Holy hell I finally beat that high halls enemy encounter. Those 2 big guys are so terrible, 2mask damage and you can't get close often because of all the attack spamming. Definitely the hardest thing in the game for me so far

Just did this. Took me like 5 tries and it made me unlock another slot on Reaper and then REALLY work for the kill. I actually liked it, but I can see it being a real sticking point for a lot of people. This game in general feels like it's for people that've completed Godhome, it's crazy how often I'm going "wow this FEELS like fighting PV".

I also did the equivalent to the White Flower quest from HK and holy shit, do NOT attempt to do it without having very good vertical traversal movement options.